An Intellectual History of Political Corruption
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"The humors of faction Machiavelli often employed organic or biological notions of polities subject to infirmities or diseases (such ... The essential point, as Parel has observed, was that Machiavelli's political umori imbibed the Galenic medical" --An Intellectual History of Political Corruption (2014), page 90, B. Buchan, L. Hill |
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An Intellectual History of Political Corruption (2014) is a book B. Buchan, L. Hill.
Blurb:
Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.